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Topic: Mame (arcade) tools and stuff (Read 9849 times)

Share your links for emulation stuff here. Just the link and a brief description will be great. Please note I DO NOT maintain any of the stuff on these links..these are just reference. Also unless otherwise stated everything here is for windows XP or higher

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/MAME/Support_Files#ControlsControls.ini is a project started by Kevin Jonas (SirPoonga) with the help of Howard Casto. This project was started to accurately document the controls and button labels of the arcade control panels from the games in MAME. Like the Catlist and NPlayers files, you can only use the controls.ini with a front-end that is programmed to use it.

Now if we can just get somebody to make a new version of fast mame I think we can really get some mame machines out there! The code feels "bloated" now (no offense..the devs work hard). So many versions it's hard to keep track on the new release days! When I stared it was just DOS and we were glad it worked 25% of the time

He wrote "I found the structure of the data in the controls.dat project a bit archaic, convoluted, and difficult to use. So I created a tool that will restructure the controls.dat JSON file in a way that (in my opinion) is much easier to work with. I think the JSON format makes this much easier compared to XML. I also expanded the structure so that more exact and meaningful information could be recorded. It also updates the way the MAME input ports are stored so it is compatible with the latest MAME (no more _EXT inputs)."